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Mel Green 🌻

@yksin.bsky.social

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In Alaska (w/ Finnish roots). And I write. ✍🏻♀🏳️‍🌈🇫🇮🌊🌻 Rakkaus on ankara ja lempi kova, siihen kuolee seisaalleen ja silmät jää auki. (Love is severe & devotion tough, it kills you on your feet & your eyes remain open.)

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Gemma Arrowsmith @mmaarrow.bsky.social · Apr 7

Haha! Love this letter from Douglas Adams to his US editor about not Americanising the text of Hitchhiker's Guide. 🐋🌸

Date: Monday, January 13, 1992, 5:26 pm
To: Byron Preiss
Dear Byron,
Thanks for the script of the novel. I don't know what happened to the
first one. It may have been a victim of the office move (see above).
I'll respond as quickly and briefly as possible.
One general point. A thing I have had said to me over and over again
whenever I've done public appearances and readings and so on in the
States is this: Please don't let anyone Americanise it! We like it the
way it is!
There are some changes in the script that simply don't make sense.
Arthur Dent is English, the setting is England, and has been in every
single manifestation of HHGG ever. The 'Horse and Groom' pub that
Arthur and Ford go to is an English pub, the 'pounds' they pay with

are English (but make it twenty pounds rather than five- inflation) So
why suddenly 'Newark' instead of 'Rickmansworth'? And
'Bloomingdales' instead of 'Marks & Spencer'? The fact that
Rickmansworth is not within the continental United States doesn't
mean that it doesn't exist! American audiences do not need to feel
disturbed by the notion that places do exist outside the US or that
people might suddenly refer to them in works of fiction. You
wouldn't, presumably, replace Ursa Minor Beta with 'Des Moines'.
There is no Bloomingdales in England, and Bloomingdales is not a
generic term for large department stores. If you feel that referring to
"Marks & Spencer' might seriously freak out Americans because they
haven't heard of it (or because Marks and Spencer owns Brooks
Brothers) we could either put warning stickers on the cover ("The text
of this book contains references to places and institutions outside the
continental United States and may cause offence to people who haven't
heard of them") or you could, I suppose, put 'Harrods', which most
people will have heard of. Or we could even take the appalling risk of
just recklessly mentioning things that people won't have heard of and
see if they survive the experience. They probably will - when people
are born they haven't heard of anything or anywhere, but seem to get
through the first few years of their lives without ill-effects.

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Mel Green 🌻 @yksin.bsky.social · Aug 15

Be glad, Russian journos, that your temporary accommodations aren’t like those of the actual Russian journos imprisoned for countering your overlord’s lies.

(Look out, American journos, that’s coming for you too — unless you’re MAGA mouthpieces.)

Julia Davis @juliadavisnews.bsky.social · Aug 15

Russian journos don't sound too happy with their accommodations and are peeved that their credit cards aren't working.

Mel Green 🌻 @yksin.bsky.social · Aug 13

Rest in peace, Steve Haycox.

Noted Alaska historian and author Stephen Haycox dies at age 85

Haycox taught at the University of Alaska Anchorage for more than 40 years.

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Mel Green 🌻 @yksin.bsky.social · Aug 8

Right…? [nodding]

Michael Harriot @michaelharriot.bsky.social · Aug 8

The fallacy in this “capitulating” narrative is the assumption that billionaires & elite institutions are being strongarmed by Trump, but they don’t really WANT a white supremacist, Christian nationalist authoritarian oligarchy

Do you have any evidence that they’re victims and not co-conspirators?

Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · Aug 8

"What is the point of having 'fuck you money' if you don't say 'fuck you'?

I went on @briantylercohen.bsky.social's show to denounce the craven, cowardly Big Tech billionaires like Jeff Bezos and Tim Cook for rolling over to Trump and the GOP.

Full interview: www.youtube.com/watch?v=2K5h...

Mel Green 🌻 @yksin.bsky.social · Jul 30

Don’t forget that Israel’s genocide of Gaza civilians is made possible by American bombs made with the taxes of American taxpayers & authorized by a president & members of Congress elected by American voters.

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Mel Green 🌻 @yksin.bsky.social · Jul 30

Next on my reading list. As in: today. Now.

David Wengrow @davidwengrow.bsky.social · Jul 7

To understand the appeal of the far-right today we need to examine the origins of the fascist myth of primordial male kinship.
New essay, out today @eurozine.bsky.social
www.eurozine.com/seeds-of-ano...

Seeds of another world

The nexus of radical inequality, social atomization and male victimhood has been exploited before. But why now, on such a scale? To understand the appeal of the far-right today we need to examine the...

www.eurozine.com

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america.is.not.free @antifapatriot.bsky.social · Jul 7

If you put googly eyes on the Pillars of Creation you get muppets 😄😄

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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · Jul 4

This year it feels more like the Farce of July.

Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · Jul 4

Mural of Statue of Liberty in shame unveiled in France the day before 4th of July

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Mel Green 🌻 @yksin.bsky.social · Jun 19

Celebrating Juneteenth.

BadRobotLinda @lms2025.bsky.social · Jun 19

Heather Cox Richardson made a short video to remember Juneteenth because our history matters.

“Juneteenth is a celebration of a new nation, one that would honor the equality of all Americans - and one that we are in danger of losing as those in power set about rewriting the record”
#ProudBlue

What is Juneteenth and Why Does it Matter: A Short History | Journey to American Democracy

Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.

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Mel Green 🌻 @yksin.bsky.social · Jun 19

Here’s a one-screenshot master class on how to create an easy-to-spot scam. Count the errors. Seriously, what does item 4 even mean?

Mel Green 🌻 @yksin.bsky.social · Jun 11

Trumps to see Les Mis tonight. 45/47 wont like it. He’ll be rooting for Javert & will be displeased that Jean Valjean finds some happiness before his death.

Mel Green 🌻 @yksin.bsky.social · May 26

On this Memorial Day, honoring my great-great granduncle Charles F. Renneker (1843-1862), 24th Missouri Infantry (Union), who died on 14 Nov 1862 of wounds sustained at the 2nd Battle of Corinth (3-4 Oct 1862). He died in service of freedom for all.

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Mel Green 🌻 @yksin.bsky.social · May 23

I carried some of those flowers to lyin’ Nick Begich’s Anchorage office. He cares more about tax cuts for billionaires than for the health of his Alaska constituents.

Stand UP Alaska | Alaska Civics Channel @standupalaska.bsky.social · May 22

Nick Begich didn't stand up for Alaskans. Folks are mad 😡 but they vow to STAND 🆙!

Next up...Senator Dan Sullivan. How are you going to vote, sir? Alaskans are asking...

#HealthcareCutsKill #Alaska @protectourcare.org @seiu775.org @aflcio.org @careinaction.bsky.social @actionalaska.bsky.social

Mel Green 🌻 @yksin.bsky.social · Apr 29

Solidarity

Shoshanah in Alaska @shanahstone.bsky.social · Apr 29

May Day
National Day of Action
Anchorage, Alaska

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Jonathan Slater @jonathanslater.bsky.social · Apr 10

Best cat video of the day

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Mel Green 🌻 @yksin.bsky.social · Apr 6

Shoshanah in Alaska @shanahstone.bsky.social · Apr 6

Updated: I have counted 21 #HandsOff Alaska protests that I know of.

Homer
Gustavus
Sitka
Wasilla
Juneau
Anchorage
Glennallen
Fairbanks
Kodiak
Soldotna
Bethel
Dillingham
Healy
Skagway
Cordova
Talkeetna
Nome
Seward
Seldovia
Petersburg
Ketchikan

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Kingfisher & Wombat @tkingfisher.com · Apr 5

A mountain bluebird has perched on the tallest frozen rose stalk and is just hanging out in the snow, being blue.

A small blue and white bird sits atop a frozen rose stem.

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John Lipponen 🇫🇮 🇦🇹 @lippoenen.bsky.social · Apr 6

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · Apr 6

US tourism is in for some things.

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Laurence H. Tribe @tribelaw.bsky.social · Apr 6

This!

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Pierre Polyester @canadian-critic.bsky.social · Apr 5

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Trina McMahon @quendi.bsky.social · Apr 5

Madison, WI #HandsOff
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Mel Green 🌻 @yksin.bsky.social · Apr 6

Suzanne Downing is a tool.

dermotcole.bsky.social @dermotcole.bsky.social · Apr 6

This is Suzanne Downing, part-time Alaska resident and the voice of the Alaska Republican Party. The party and its leaders never call out her lies. They are either afraid of her or happy to have a GOP lie machine. Here are several of her latest lies about protests today. #akleg #alaska

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Gravel Influencer @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · Apr 5

I am obsessed with the penguin Gadsden flag

The Don't Tread on Me Gadsden flag with a penguin

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